Storm flooding
Date
1754
Creator
Matthew Darly (1735 - 1774, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
R62588
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 215mm
width (print): 215mm
Description
Landscape showing the effects of a great storm in St. John’s Vale, Cumberland, England, in 1749. The view includes water flooding down from the fellsides, carrying rocks and demolishing sections of wall. According to an associated key, the figure A shows an abandoned farmhouse, and B a demolished watermill.
The accompanying article gives an account of the storm and its impact: ‘the noise of the thunder was added to that of the cataracts, and of the fragments of rock, which they drove before them; the fences were overturned in a moment, the fields covered with the ruins of the mountains, under which, the cottages were first crushed, and then swept away by the torrent…’.
Plate illustrating the paper: ‘Dreadful storm in Cumberland’, initialled ‘G.S’. The Gentleman’s Magazine, and historical chronicle…[edited] by Sylvanus Urban, v.24, (1754) pp.464-465.
Inscribed above: ‘Gent: Mag: October 1754.’ Inscribed below: ‘M. DARLY SCULP’.
The accompanying article gives an account of the storm and its impact: ‘the noise of the thunder was added to that of the cataracts, and of the fragments of rock, which they drove before them; the fences were overturned in a moment, the fields covered with the ruins of the mountains, under which, the cottages were first crushed, and then swept away by the torrent…’.
Plate illustrating the paper: ‘Dreadful storm in Cumberland’, initialled ‘G.S’. The Gentleman’s Magazine, and historical chronicle…[edited] by Sylvanus Urban, v.24, (1754) pp.464-465.
Inscribed above: ‘Gent: Mag: October 1754.’ Inscribed below: ‘M. DARLY SCULP’.
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